BTW Articles

06 Nov

Book Sense Bestseller Lists in the Media

During the month of October, the following newspapers joined the growing list of media outlets publishing the Book Sense Bestseller lists.

The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, IA (National list)
Ravalli News, Hamilton, MT (Pacific Northwest list)
Shelbyville News, Shelbyville, IN (National list)

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06 Nov

The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Business and Finance

Based on the last four weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America.

Thanks to all the stores that report, the new expanded electronic reporting options, and the software our team here has built to sort and slice a ton of data according to BISAC categories, this is the latest of many subject category lists to run in BTW each week.

These are intended as inventory checking tools for booksellers, alerts to publishers as to what’s selling, and lists that the media can run.

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06 Nov

Snicket Rules; Ditto Tartt and Tolkein; Sleepers

By Carl Lennertz

No surprise: Snicket #9 goes to #1 for us, and Bad Beginning jumps to #2. All Snicket titles in-between are in the top 50; check stock … or stacks.

Secret History, in mass market and trade, is moving up on the national list and some local lists. Mass market is 0804111359; trade is 0449911519.

Tolkein mania about to heat up; books two and three taking off again.

Sleepers to watch:

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06 Nov

Full Winter 2002 - 2003 Children's Book Sense 76 -- With Booksellers' Recommendations

The full Winter 2002 - 2003 Children's Book Sense 76 -- with booksellers' recommendations -- has been posted at http://news.bookweb.org/read/922. The printed flier will be included in the November white box.

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06 Nov

Today Book Club Announces Fifth Selection

On Friday, November 1, NBC News' Today Show announced that the fifth selection of its monthly "Today Book Club" is The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van, by Alan Bennett (Random House paperback). Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones's Diary, chose this month's selection. Both Bennett and Fielding were guests on the morning show.

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06 Nov

Nominations for Outstanding Children's Booksellers Wanted

The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) has announced its annual call for nominations of outstanding U.S. booksellers in the field of children's literature. From the nominations, two bookstores -- one general bookstore and one specialty children's store -- will be selected as winners of the Lucile Micheels Pannell Award to be presented at BookExpo America 2003.

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06 Nov

Booksellers Challenge South Carolina Internet Statute

On Wednesday, November 6, booksellers and free speech advocates filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina a complaint asking that a South Carolina law be permanently enjoined. The statute criminalizes any work communicated on the Internet that is accessible in South Carolina and contains a depiction of nudity or sexual conduct considered to be "harmful to minors." Booksellers are concerned that the law could be construed to include material with sexual content sold on their Web sites.

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